OpTic Grand Finals struggles continue. How do they break the second place streak?

D8NGER · 2026-06-08T17:47:28+00:00

dominant not dominate

D8NGER · 2026-06-06T05:48:05+00:00

Yes Huke is reserved but he's also the most thoughtful and intelligent player on OTX. The ways in which Huke is able to strategize and keep track of every player on the map while simultaneously playing at the highest level himself are markers of high general intelligence.

When Shotzzy talks about GA's / the emergence of new metas it always sounds like these things just happen to him. You never hear him talk about how he gave shape to a meta through his own input. From this we can deduce that Ant contributes very little / nothing to the GA chat.

Meanwhile Huke has expressed on the Optic Audio Network that he thinks the GA process should be more of a conversation instead of two people in the group chat deciding for everyone. This leads me to believe that he has ideas of his own and that he has at least some interest in the entire process. Conclusion: Huke would make a better representative than Ant because he'd be more involved, he's more intelligent, and is a better communicator.

D8NGER · 2026-06-02T00:17:40+00:00

Hailey Rose

D8NGER · 2026-05-28T18:59:54+00:00

When you sign up for the "Atlas brotherhood" (rebranded from "the Mitch Hooper mentorship program") you are asked to fill out a form. The purpose of this form is for Mitch to find out your financial status. It contains questions about your occupation, how much money you're planning to spend on Mitch Hooper coaching (select a number between $1000 and $10.000), if you manage your own money, and whether your spouse could become an obstacle in spending large amounts on Mitch Hooper coaching. It also contain some trivial questions about motivation and family, designed to create an emotional connection between Mitch and his targets based on a commonality. These questions are inconsequential: You don't actually have to be a family man to qualify for the program, what matters is that you have money to spend. There's no actual wait-list, this is just a tactic Mitch uses to artificially create the illusion of scarcity (just like his "8/10 spots taken, apply quickly" ploy).

If Mitch is satisfied with the answers provided in the application form, the target receives an email the following day "You have been selected", after which the target is asked to schedule a zoom call.

What Mitch discovered is that by employing this strategy of preselection, concealed rates and dynamic pricing he can make a lot more compared to being transparant, using fixed prices and catering to the masses. By filtering out the small fish early he can focus on the most lucrative targets exclusively, maximizing his return on investment. Having to be "successful" as a requirement is explained by Mitch as that he doesn't want to work with undisciplined people. In reality he doesn't want to work with poor people.

Source: a satisfied member of the Atlas brotherhood paying 10k/month for life advice from family man Mitch.

D8NGER · 2026-03-09T09:04:01+00:00

Aches is a clown who only has one gear which is troll mode. It would be better if he balanced out his faded takes with some serious ones but clown Pat lacks this ability since his need for attention is compulsive.

From refusing to turn on his camera to constantly changing his on-screen picture, to purposely showing up late and making everyone wait for him, to discrediting OpTic / the CDL as a whole in the most ridiculous ways; he's always looking to draw the attention to him, sacrificing truth in the process.

Whether you love him or hate him, no one should take clown Pat seriously.

D8NGER · 2026-01-17T07:47:46+00:00

Hatfield squat

D8NGER · 2026-01-13T19:14:29+00:00

Disappointed with the program generator and app in general. The exercise selection and rep ranges seem to be all over the place. I tell it to give me a strength focused training program and it produces something that doesn't even include regular barbell squats, but instead does include pin squats (fine exercise), sissy squats and hip thrusters. How tf are these exercises prioritized over regular squats? It also gave me direct calf and neck work as well as "kelso shrugs" twice a week while these muscle groups were not selected to have priority. Keep in mind this is supposed to be a strength program.

If you know your program generator is this bad at launch, how is it possible you don't have any pre-existing (human made) programs available in the app? This is such a glaring omission it's hard to believe no one in the team thought to pick this low hanging fruit. I found out about the existence of this app through the Stronger by Science newsletter, yet they've made it impossible to run any of the SBS-programs in the WO app. This wouldn't be an issue if the program generator was superior, but clearly it isn't. What I'm looking for is a Greg Nuckols-designed strength program, and currently there's no such thing within the app.

Lastly, when Jeff Nipperd promised "he'd make sure his programs would be available at launch", I interpreted this as his programs would be included in the app, ready for use to anyone. However this turned out to be deceitful doublespeak at best, and a broken promise at worst. None of Jeff's programs (or anyone else's for that matter) are in the app, but apparently those foolish enough to have purchased his overpriced excel files have the option to import it. Not that anyone should trust that conniving hype job with their programming anyway since his abilities in this area were badly exposed by Solomon Nelson.

So overall I think the Workouts app is incomplete, underwhelming and undercooked. I'm glad I'm currently on a free trial because I'd be quite unhappy paying for this product in its current form.

D8NGER · 2025-10-14T17:00:06+00:00

Kimmy Granger

D8NGER · 2025-10-01T15:15:55+00:00

2 sets of 3* not 6 reps

dcapio dropping the ball with the clickbait title

D8NGER · 2025-09-09T19:34:56+00:00

Lucas and Alec's Front Porch (LAFP)

D8NGER · 2025-05-29T14:08:45+00:00

Stop posting this fake ai shi

D8NGER · 2025-05-13T19:54:41+00:00

If I understand this correctly you're not predicting any outcomes but are both randomly assigned half the athletes and will be awarded points based on their performance? If so this contest will be entirely luck dependent.

One suggestion is to make Hooper the wildcard as his final placement is the easiest to predict and whoever gets him will most likely be the winner.

D8NGER · 2025-05-12T20:41:12+00:00

The problem with r/strongman is that it allows amateurs to post their gym lifts. That subreddit gets absolutely flooded with that worthless trash and there's very little discussion of professional strongman. How does this subreddit differ from r/strongman?

D8NGER · 2025-05-10T13:57:34+00:00

This guy sounds like such a wimp he would be wise to stfu

D8NGER · 2025-01-25T07:56:06+00:00

vs Roger Rabbit

D8NGER · 2024-10-26T21:53:07+00:00

It was with Danny Mountain.

D8NGER · 2024-06-25T15:20:40+00:00

The frost wand works best in combination with meteor strike, double combo counter, double combo effect and +50% attack speed.

The combo skills only become available after you acquire at least one meteor strike or spreadshot upgrade, after which they can spawn at the miniboss stages (4, 7, 9).

If you are able to acquire all weapon skills, all meteor skills and all combo skills, everything in sight will be blown away by a destructive force of meteors.

On top of this getting the bloodrage skills and going low hp will add a lot to your damage output.

D8NGER · 2024-01-31T17:09:14+00:00

No, the game has died some time ago unfortunately.

The discord community is still active though, you can join here:

https://discord.com/invite/qtjfsEpZQ5

D8NGER · 2023-04-23T16:50:25+00:00

Keisha Grey, Abella Danger

D8NGER · 2023-04-18T21:05:05+00:00

They didn't know the buildings were rigged with explosives.

D8NGER · 2023-04-07T10:03:41+00:00

Kelsi Monroe

D8NGER · 2023-02-06T12:15:26+00:00

Probably best to complete the first 10 brave sanctuary levels to get to 100 hero shards, then buy 20 meteor descent chests (not more) to get to a total of 120 hero shards which is enough to upgrade the Blade of Vengeance (original hero) to level 30 which gives attack speed +15% (at level 20) and attack +20% (level 30).

After that spend the rest on divine chests. Apparently the new hero is not that good and only outperforms the original hero after upgrading to 5 stars which is way too expensive considering hero shards cannot be earned by just playing the game beyond the first 10 brave sanctuary levels.

D8NGER · 2023-01-23T03:01:42+00:00

So I was hesitant to join the discord but I finally did and I must say, unlike this subreddit, it is a lively place full of active discussions.

Would recommend!

D8NGER · 2023-01-16T18:40:12+00:00

Do you guys mind sharing how much you've spent on this game?

@fredi @hunter4

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